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Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted income on the probability to become self-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a...

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Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this …

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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity – women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

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